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WD Green 3 or 4TB due to an extra robust enclosure.

There might be quieter but these are darn quiet.

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WD greens are really quiet [running one in my on-at-night PC]. But they're 5400rmp. so for data storage. Sucky for programs.

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Caviar Greens

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what winds out of reds v greens?

 

Greens are for light computing with minimal power intake and noise out put. For regular PCs.

 

Reds are made to run 24/7 for NAS operation, RAID arrays, and server computing.

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Caviar Greens

 

Something like the 2.5" WD Green would probably be the quitets HDD out there.

But the 3,5" WD Greens are also really quite.

 

WD Green 3 or 4TB due to an extra robust enclosure.

There might be quieter but these are darn quiet.

 

red v greens?

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Greens are for light computing with minimal power intake and noise out put. For regular PCs.

 

Reds are made to run 24/7 for NAS operation, RAID arrays, and server computing.

how different are the speeds

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red v greens?

 

how different are the speeds

As @Bluejay0 said: the Reds and Greens are designed for different things. The Reds aren't quiter than the Greens in my experience. The performance difference between the two is negligible.

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WD Green, but you can still hear the mechanical devices moving, mostly when the reading heads are parking. SSD's are ultra quiet tough.

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I have a WD green in my system. Very quiet, even in my cheapo case.

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